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巨磁电阻材料中可能存在的量子涨落

Possible quantum nematic in a colossal magnetoresistance material

Gabrielle Beaudin, Lucie Maude Fournier, Michael Nicklas, Michel Kenzelmann, Mark Laver, William Witczak-Krempa, Andrea D. Bianchi

摘要:

EuB 6长期以来一直吸引着物理学界的注意力,因为它显示了铁磁相变,导致绝缘体金属转变以及巨磁阻(CMR)。EuB 6具有非常低的载流子密度,这是已知的急剧改变本地化的Eu矩和传导电子之间的相互作用。量子理论在凝聚态中的早期胜利之一是费米面的存在,它与下面晶格的对称性密切相关。这种对称性可以通过角分辨磁阻(AMRO)测量来探测。在这里,我们提出的角度分辨磁阻(AMRO)的测量表明,在EuB 6这种对称性被打破,可能表明存在的量子周期相。我们确定的区域中的温度-磁场相图中的磁阻显示两倍的振荡,而不是预期的四倍模式。量子液晶相类似于经典的液晶。与液晶一样,它们的量子类似物由于强的电子-电子相互作用而打破了晶体的点群对称性,如量子霍尔态、Sr 3Ru 2 O 7和高温超导体。这是以前观察到的磁极化子的同一区域,表明它们驱动EuB 6中的向列性。这也是EuB 6显示巨磁阻(CMR)的相图区域。这种新颖的磁性和电子性质之间的相互作用,因此可以利用自旋电子应用。

英文摘要:

EuB6 has for a long time captured the attention of the physics community, as it shows a ferromagnetic phase transition leading to a insulator the metal transition together with colossal magnetoresistance (CMR). EuB6 has a very low carrier density, which is known to drastically change the interaction between the localized Eu moments and the conduction electrons. One of early triumphs of the quantum theory in condensed matter was the presence of Fermi surface, which is intimately linked to the symmetry of the underlying crystal lattice. This symmetry can be probed by angle resolved magnetoresistance (AMRO) measurements. Here, we present angle resolved magnetoresistance (AMRO) measurements that show a that in EuB6 this symmetry is broken, possibly indicating the presence of a quantum nematic phase. We identify the region in the temperature-magnetic field phase diagram where the magnetoresistance shows two-fold oscillations instead of the expected fourfold pattern. Quantum nematic phases are analogous to classical liquid crystals. Like liquid crystals, which break the rotational symmetry of space, their quantum analogs break the point-group symmetry of the crystal due to strong electron-electron interactions, as in quantum Hall states, Sr3Ru2O7, and high temperature superconductors. This is the same region where magnetic polarons were previously observed, suggesting that they drive the nematicity in EuB6. This is also the region of the phase diagram where EuB6 shows a colossal magnetoresistance (CMR). This novel interplay between magnetic and electronic properties could thus be harnessed for spintronic applications.

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